Property Quotes
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.